#55 IλI
There are 1,297 hyphens in Project Hail Mary.
The ten most common hyphenated expressions are:
Blip-A (77 times)
life-form (18 times)
light-years (17 times)
life-support (17 times)
Taumoeba-82.5 (16 times)
mini-farms (15 times)
on-screen (12 times)
twenty-six (11 times)
zero-g (8 times)
control-room (8 times)
There are 14 occurrences of triple-hyphenation:
A-below-middle-C, back-of-the-napkin, CEN-TI-ME-TERS, glow-in-the-dark, God-knows-how-many, Ha-ha-ha-ha, negative-51-degree-Celsius, righty-tighty-lefty-loosey, second-from-the-right, Tap-tap-tap-tap, Three-thousand-five-hundredth, top-of-the-line (2 times), and yet-to-be-developed.
There are 72 occurrences of double-hyphenation:
1-cubic-meter, 1-millimeter-thick, 10-kilometer-long, 10-micron-wide, 125-cubic-meter, 30-foot-long, 4-inch-thick, 45-degree-angle, 540-trillion-watt, airlock-to-airlock (2 times), all-too-familiar, automated-coma-bed, back-of-the (2 times), black-and-white, brand-spanking-new, end-over-end (3 times), face-to-carapace, fatter-than-usual, four-by-fours, free-for-all, gosh-knows-what, heat-transfer-rate, high-tensile-strength, honest-to-God (2 times), kiss-my-butt, Knock-knock-knock, life-or-death, milli-arc-second, nose-to-tail, not-really-profane, now-triply-covered, off-the-books, off-the-shelf (4 times), one-cell-thick, one-meter-wide (2), one-on-one, one-over-x, One-sixteenth-inch, one-square-meter, Sanskrit-to-English, solid-state-drive, tap-tap-tap (2 times), Tap-tap-tap (6 times), thirteen-year-old, thirteen-year-olds, three-quarter-inch, tippy-tippy-top, touch-and-go, trial-and-error, twenty-four-hour, two-by-fours, two-i-pi, two-million-kilogram, xenonite-to-xenonite, Y-E-S (2 times), and zero-g-rated.